Tim wrote: > Don't forget, ZFS is open source, and can be ported to any other > number of platforms as well. It's also currently supported on FreeBSD > 7.0, and is basically production ready on that platform. > > The open source is HUGE in my mind, you aren't tied to Solaris. > Granted, that is where the main development is taking place right now, > but if Sun were to fold up shop, or kill off solaris > *cough*netware*cough*, zfs isn't going anywhere, and your data should > be portable. > > I'm going to be blunt, and probably will rile up a few trolls if there > are any on this mailing list: > If you're talking to anyone still on netware, they're a netware > zealot, and nothing you can say is going to change that. > If they haven't found a reason to throw netware under the bus yet, > they aren't going to. No reasonable argument as to why ZFS is > superior to NSS will be heard, there will always be some caveat (ITS > NOT SUPPORTED BY NOVELL!!!11), as to why it's just not a good enough > reason to switch.
Out of the Novell-types at the talk, one was a Novell "zealot" and the rest were just folks who make a living supporting Novell customers. Also, NSS was apparently been ported to Linux. alan _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
